Hobbit Watch: Del Toro May Decide by Friday

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Hobbit Watch: Del Toro May Decide by Friday

Talking up his just finished Hellboy II movie at New York Comic Con over the weekend, Guillermo del Toro told audiences he hoped to make up his mind about directing The Hobbit within four or five days.

In the book Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (sneak-previewed in the June Wired), del Toro made it clear he wants to save some creative juice for Middle Earth by steering away from anything that might smack of Tolkien-esque imagery. "We needed to avoid the Anglo-Saxon/Celtic magical universe that's common in mainstream films," he writes.